Last night, TCM ran "Creature Features". I watched "The Creature From
the Black Lagoon" and "The Blob". I'm yet to watch "It Came From Beneath
the Sea" which I taped.
The movies took me back to being a scared little boy, hunkered down in
the Quonset hut that was the Cactus Theater of my childhood. It's still
the only theater in my hometown. Quonset huts last!
[ObFood] We scrounged various snacks for dinner. I should have popped
some Orville Redenbacher. Tonight will be two-day-old beef stew.

leo

On 11/17/2023 4:03 PM, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
> Last night, TCM ran "Creature Features". I watched "The Creature From
> the Black Lagoon" and "The Blob". I'm yet to watch "It Came From Beneath
> the Sea" which I taped.
> The movies took me back to being a scared little boy, hunkered down in
> the Quonset hut that was the Cactus Theater of my childhood. It's still
> the only theater in my hometown. Quonset huts last!
> [ObFood] We scrounged various snacks for dinner. I should have popped
> some Orville Redenbacher. Tonight will be two-day-old beef stew.
>
> leo

GMTA, leo! I mentioned those movies in another post. I didn't watch
"It Came From Beneath the Sea". I think they had "Godzilla" somewhere
later in that lineup. Is it just me or did Steve McQueen look too old
to be playing the cool teenager in 'The Blob'? (I cheated, looked it up.
Yeah, he was 28 in 1958. Maybe he flunked a few grades so he could
hang out with the cool kids and drive a cool car.)

Last night I made/ate broccoli/rice/cheese casserole. I've got
Mongolian beef slow cooking in the crockpot for dinner tonight. It
smells wonderful. Enjoy your beef stew! :)

Jill

On Friday, November 17, 2023 at 3:57:40 PM UTC-6, jmcquown wrote:
>
> On 11/17/2023 4:03 PM, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
> >
> > Last night, TCM ran "Creature Features". I watched "The Creature From
> > the Black Lagoon" and "The Blob". I'm yet to watch "It Came From Beneath
> > the Sea" which I taped.
> > The movies took me back to being a scared little boy, hunkered down in
> > the Quonset hut that was the Cactus Theater of my childhood. It's still
> > the only theater in my hometown. Quonset huts last!
> > [ObFood] We scrounged various snacks for dinner. I should have popped
> > some Orville Redenbacher. Tonight will be two-day-old beef stew.
> >
> > leo
> >
> GMTA, leo! I mentioned those movies in another post. I didn't watch
> "It Came From Beneath the Sea". I think they had "Godzilla" somewhere
> later in that lineup. Is it just me or did Steve McQueen look too old
> to be playing the cool teenager in 'The Blob'? (I cheated, looked it up.
> Yeah, he was 28 in 1958. Maybe he flunked a few grades so he could
> hang out with the cool kids and drive a cool car.)
>
> Last night I made/ate broccoli/rice/cheese casserole. I've got
> Mongolian beef slow cooking in the crockpot for dinner tonight. It
> smells wonderful. Enjoy your beef stew! :)
>
> Jill
>
Trivia time! The girl friend in "The Blob," Aneta Corsaut, was the girl friend and
elementary school teacher, Helen Crump, in "The Andy Griffith Show."

On 11/17/2023 5:46 PM, itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net wrote:
> On Friday, November 17, 2023 at 3:57:40 PM UTC-6, jmcquown wrote:
>>
>> On 11/17/2023 4:03 PM, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
>>>
>>> Last night, TCM ran "Creature Features". I watched "The Creature From
>>> the Black Lagoon" and "The Blob". I'm yet to watch "It Came From Beneath
>>> the Sea" which I taped.
>>> The movies took me back to being a scared little boy, hunkered down in
>>> the Quonset hut that was the Cactus Theater of my childhood. It's still
>>> the only theater in my hometown. Quonset huts last!
>>> [ObFood] We scrounged various snacks for dinner. I should have popped
>>> some Orville Redenbacher. Tonight will be two-day-old beef stew.
>>>
>>> leo
>>>
>> GMTA, leo! I mentioned those movies in another post. I didn't watch
>> "It Came From Beneath the Sea". I think they had "Godzilla" somewhere
>> later in that lineup. Is it just me or did Steve McQueen look too old
>> to be playing the cool teenager in 'The Blob'? (I cheated, looked it up.
>> Yeah, he was 28 in 1958. Maybe he flunked a few grades so he could
>> hang out with the cool kids and drive a cool car.)
>>
>> Last night I made/ate broccoli/rice/cheese casserole. I've got
>> Mongolian beef slow cooking in the crockpot for dinner tonight. It
>> smells wonderful. Enjoy your beef stew! :)
>>
>> Jill
>>
> Trivia time! The girl friend in "The Blob," Aneta Corsaut, was the girl friend and
> elementary school teacher, Helen Crump, in "The Andy Griffith Show."

She certainly didn't look the same. Helen Crump was rather frumpy
looking on that show. More trivia: Andy Griffith's short-lived
girlfriend (before Helen Crump) was the pharmacist's niece, Elinor
Donahue from the TV series "Father Knows Best". :)

Jill

On Friday, November 17, 2023 at 6:33:57 PM UTC-6, jmcquown wrote:
>
> On 11/17/2023 5:46 PM, itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:
> >>
> > Trivia time! The girl friend in "The Blob," Aneta Corsaut, was the girl friend and
> > elementary school teacher, Helen Crump, in "The Andy Griffith Show."
> >
> She certainly didn't look the same. Helen Crump was rather frumpy
> looking on that show. More trivia: Andy Griffith's short-lived
> girlfriend (before Helen Crump) was the pharmacist's niece, Elinor
> Donahue from the TV series "Father Knows Best". :)
>
> Jill
>
Yes, and that's really going back in time!

On 11/17/2023 7:33 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 11/17/2023 5:46 PM, itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net wrote:
>>
>> Trivia time! The girl friend in "The Blob," Aneta Corsaut, was the
>> girl friend and
>> elementary school teacher, Helen Crump, in "The Andy Griffith Show."
>
> She certainly didn't look the same. Helen Crump was rather frumpy
> looking on that show. More trivia: Andy Griffith's short-lived
> girlfriend (before Helen Crump) was the pharmacist's niece, Elinor
> Donahue from the TV series "Father Knows Best". :)

I don't think I get TMC, but I was watching the Dick Van Dyke show on
MeTV last evening. They usually run the Andy Griffith show earlier in
the evening.

On 11/18/2023 11:17 AM, Michael Trew wrote:
> On 11/17/2023 7:33 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>> On 11/17/2023 5:46 PM, itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net wrote:
>>>
>>> Trivia time! The girl friend in "The Blob," Aneta Corsaut, was the
>>> girl friend and
>>> elementary school teacher, Helen Crump, in "The Andy Griffith Show."
>>
>> She certainly didn't look the same. Helen Crump was rather frumpy
>> looking on that show. More trivia: Andy Griffith's short-lived
>> girlfriend (before Helen Crump) was the pharmacist's niece, Elinor
>> Donahue from the TV series "Father Knows Best". :)
>
> I don't think I get TMC, but I was watching the Dick Van Dyke show on
> MeTV last evening.  They usually run the Andy Griffith show earlier in
> the evening.

Turner Classics (TCM) is fun. MeTV is good, so is Antenna TV. I do
also watch a lot of PBS and occasionally, HGTV (House Hunters). The
house hunter people are so silly, squabbling over the oddest things.
Oh, the bedroom isn't big enough. Really? It's big enough to fit a
king size bed with two night stands and a two dressers and has walk in
closets and you're complaining it's too small? Too small for what?!
It's amusing.

I watched "The Mist" on Syfy yesterday. That was a based on a creepy
Stephen King novella. Fairly well done with the special effects but the
movie did not end the same way his story did.

Jill

On Saturday, November 18, 2023 at 10:41:45 AM UTC-6, jmcquown wrote:
>
> On 11/18/2023 11:17 AM, Michael Trew wrote:
> >
> > I don't think I get TMC, but I was watching the Dick Van Dyke show on
> > MeTV last evening. They usually run the Andy Griffith show earlier in
> > the evening.
> >
> Turner Classics (TCM) is fun.
>
> Jill
>
The other night I watched Jean Cocteau's "Orphée" (Orpheus), on TCM and it had
been several years since I'd seen it. Of course, it's his modern rendition of the Greek
mythology.

On 11/18/2023 11:41 AM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 11/18/2023 11:17 AM, Michael Trew wrote:
>>
>> I don't think I get TMC, but I was watching the Dick Van Dyke show on
>> MeTV last evening. They usually run the Andy Griffith show earlier in
>> the evening.
>
> Turner Classics (TCM) is fun. MeTV is good, so is Antenna TV. I do also
> watch a lot of PBS and occasionally, HGTV (House Hunters). The house
> hunter people are so silly, squabbling over the oddest things. Oh, the
> bedroom isn't big enough. Really? It's big enough to fit a king size bed
> with two night stands and a two dressers and has walk in closets and
> you're complaining it's too small? Too small for what?! It's amusing.

I haven't seen that in years. Their insane budgets and requests always
made me laugh. I didn't grow up poor, but for the few years we lived
with my step father in Pittsburgh, my brother, sister and I all shared a
small bedroom. A single dresser, and our three beds were touching side
to side... Had to crawl over the foot board to get into bed. The
people on that should would have had a conniption.

> I watched "The Mist" on Syfy yesterday. That was a based on a creepy
> Stephen King novella. Fairly well done with the special effects but the
> movie did not end the same way his story did.

If that's the movie I'm thinking of, the ending was horrible. I was
upset, and wished that I hadn't watched it.

On 11/19/2023 6:49 AM, Michael Trew wrote:
> On 11/18/2023 11:41 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>> On 11/18/2023 11:17 AM, Michael Trew wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't think I get TMC, but I was watching the Dick Van Dyke show on
>>> MeTV last evening.  They usually run the Andy Griffith show earlier in
>>> the evening.
>>
>> Turner Classics (TCM) is fun. MeTV is good, so is Antenna TV. I do also
>> watch a lot of PBS and occasionally, HGTV (House Hunters). The house
>> hunter people are so silly, squabbling over the oddest things. Oh, the
>> bedroom isn't big enough. Really? It's big enough to fit a king size bed
>> with two night stands and a two dressers and has walk in closets and
>> you're complaining it's too small? Too small for what?! It's amusing.
>
> I haven't seen that in years.  Their insane budgets and requests always
> made me laugh.  I didn't grow up poor, but for the few years we lived
> with my step father in Pittsburgh, my brother, sister and I all shared a
> small bedroom.  A single dresser, and our three beds were touching side
> to side...  Had to crawl over the foot board to get into bed.  The
> people on that should would have had a conniption.
>
Well, it's television. Their expectations are almost always ridiculous
which is what makes it so amusing. Typical scenario: a young couple
moves to a very expensive area, generally because of work. They have a
budget of $150,000 and they want five bedrooms/4 bathrooms. They don't
cook but they have to have a huge gourmet kitchen with granite
countertops and brand new stainless appliances because they "entertain".
Also a big back yard with a pool. No fixer-uppers. Yeah, good luck
with that. LOL

>> I watched "The Mist" on Syfy yesterday. That was a based on a creepy
>> Stephen King novella. Fairly well done with the special effects but the
>> movie did not end the same way his story did.
>
> If that's the movie I'm thinking of, the ending was horrible.  I was
> upset, and wished that I hadn't watched it.

It was a disturbing ending. The novella was open-ended. There was no
army coming to the rescue. They were just stuck sitting there in the
truck after they ran out of gas, surrounded by the mist, wondering what
the heck they were going to do.

Jill

On 2023-11-19, Michael Trew <michael.trew@att.net> wrote:
> On 11/18/2023 11:41 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>> On 11/18/2023 11:17 AM, Michael Trew wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't think I get TMC, but I was watching the Dick Van Dyke show on
>>> MeTV last evening. They usually run the Andy Griffith show earlier in
>>> the evening.
>>
>> Turner Classics (TCM) is fun. MeTV is good, so is Antenna TV. I do also
>> watch a lot of PBS and occasionally, HGTV (House Hunters). The house
>> hunter people are so silly, squabbling over the oddest things. Oh, the
>> bedroom isn't big enough. Really? It's big enough to fit a king size bed
>> with two night stands and a two dressers and has walk in closets and
>> you're complaining it's too small? Too small for what?! It's amusing.
>
> I haven't seen that in years. Their insane budgets and requests always
> made me laugh. I didn't grow up poor, but for the few years we lived
> with my step father in Pittsburgh, my brother, sister and I all shared a
> small bedroom. A single dresser, and our three beds were touching side
> to side... Had to crawl over the foot board to get into bed. The
> people on that should would have had a conniption.
>
>> I watched "The Mist" on Syfy yesterday. That was a based on a creepy
>> Stephen King novella. Fairly well done with the special effects but the
>> movie did not end the same way his story did.
>
> If that's the movie I'm thinking of, the ending was horrible. I was
> upset, and wished that I hadn't watched it.

Oh, we laughed our asses off. He screamed just as a tank was
rolling past. Alluding to Thomas Jane's role in "Hung", my
husband joked that the tank had just rolled over his dick.

--
Cindy Hamilton

On 2023-11-17, jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:

> GMTA, leo! I mentioned those movies in another post. I didn't watch
> "It Came From Beneath the Sea". I think they had "Godzilla" somewhere
> later in that lineup. Is it just me or did Steve McQueen look too old
> to be playing the cool teenager in 'The Blob'? (I cheated, looked it up.
> Yeah, he was 28 in 1958. Maybe he flunked a few grades so he could
> hang out with the cool kids and drive a cool car.)

Ben Mankiewicz did a short bio on him before the show started.
Apparently, his early life was no bed of roses. He certainly died way
too early.
Frankly, I had forgotten that "The Blob" was mostly a teen movie, but I
enjoyed it anyway.

leo

On 2023-11-17, itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net <itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net> wrote:

> Trivia time! The girl friend in "The Blob," Aneta Corsaut, was the girl friend and
> elementary school teacher, Helen Crump, in "The Andy Griffith Show."

Mankiewicz mentioned that! ;)

On 2023-11-18, jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:

> She certainly didn't look the same. Helen Crump was rather frumpy
> looking on that show. More trivia: Andy Griffith's short-lived
> girlfriend (before Helen Crump) was the pharmacist's niece, Elinor
> Donahue from the TV series "Father Knows Best". :)

I had a crush on Elinor, back in the day. :)

leo

On 19 Nov 2023 23:06:52 GMT, Leonard Blaisdell
<leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>On 2023-11-18, jmcquown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> She certainly didn't look the same. Helen Crump was rather frumpy
>> looking on that show. More trivia: Andy Griffith's short-lived
>> girlfriend (before Helen Crump) was the pharmacist's niece, Elinor
>> Donahue from the TV series "Father Knows Best". :)
>
>I had a crush on Elinor, back in the day. :)

Damn, she's taken!
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On Mon, 20 Nov 2023 06:30:32 -0800 (PST), bruce bowser
<bruce2bowser@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Sunday, November 19, 2023 at 3:39:10 PM UTC-8, Bruce wrote:
>> On 19 Nov 2023 23:06:52 GMT, Leonard Blaisdell
>> <leobla...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>> >On 2023-11-18, jmcquown <j_mc...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >> She certainly didn't look the same. Helen Crump was rather frumpy
>> >> looking on that show. More trivia: Andy Griffith's short-lived
>> >> girlfriend (before Helen Crump) was the pharmacist's niece, Elinor
>> >> Donahue from the TV series "Father Knows Best". :)
>> >
>> >I had a crush on Elinor, back in the day. :)
>
>> Damn, she's taken!
>
>Other women might be interested.
>
Whoever this Elinor is, she's aging gracefully. She doesn't look like
a reconstituted dragon, like most older female celebrities.